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a. 1611[?]. Beaum. & Fl., Four Plays in One, Wks. 1912, X. 296. Behold a princess playing here the slave, To keep her husbands greatness unabated.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, XIX. 295. I think yet Another time for Feast had better been; whilst yet unabated is my Spleen.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xxxi. (1787), III. 194. The king of the Goths still advanced with unabated vigour.
1796. Mme. DArblay, Camilla, III. 393. Mrs. Arlbery felt provoked to find his power thus unabated.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxv. For three days and three nights the gale continued with unabated fury.
1857. Buckle, Civiliz., I. vii. 456. For nearly fifty years the movement has continued with unabated speed.
Hence Unabatedly adv.
1828. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 132. They chaunting unabatedly her extreme deficiency in personal charms.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 27 July, 5/1. The war would be carried on unabatedly until something more tangible in the way of terms was proposed.